Science in Your Watershed

Geographic Information Systems:

• Educational Information on GIS
• GIS Journals and Magazines
• GIS Hotlist Sites
• GIS Bookstores

Educational Information on GIS:

• USGS - Geographic Information Systems - What is a GIS? This page answers your basic questions.
• ESRI - What is GIS - Introduction to GIS
• GIS Timeline- Tracing the history and development of Geographical Information Systems through the past forty years.
• What is GIS- GIS is a collection of computer hardware, software, and geographic data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.

GIS Journals and Magazines:

• Earth Observation Magazine (EOM)
• Canadian Geographica
• GIS Geography - GIS Geography.com
• Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS)

GIS Hotlist Sites:

• Alexandria Digitial Library - great resources here organized geographically from UC Santa Barbara Library, California
• Environmental Systems Research Institute - ESRI
• Federal Geographic Data Committee - an interagency committee that promotes the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of geospatial data on a national basis.
• GIS Cafe - giscafe.com
• Intergraph now Hexagon - hexagon.com - intergraph.com
• National Geospatial Program Office - building the USGS National Spatial Data Infrastructure.

GIS Bookstores:

• Amazon books
• Barnes and Noble
• EOM Bookstore - Earth Observation Magazine
• ESRI books - Bookstore Catalog - Includes a new arrivals section that is very good for tracking new books.
• Geoplace Warehouse - various GIS book selections
• Onword Press - Professional User Documentation manuals.